86d 2025 - 2nd Hand Market-in progress
Diego Guerra
2026
86d takes its name from the gastronomy term for something removed, discarded, gone. The project turns that around.
It started from something that still surprises me: how much gets thrown away here. Furniture left on the street in perfect condition, objects sold online for almost nothing, things discarded not because they stopped working but because someone moved, renovated, or just got tired of them. Coming from Colombia, where nothing with use left in it gets thrown away — it gets repaired, passed on, given to a neighbour — that relationship to objects is hard to accept as normal.
The process is simple and not particularly original: collecting what is about to disappear, found on the street, in secondhand marketplaces, or taken from people who need to sell but don't have the time or means to place it themselves. The objects are restored where needed, photographed and presented in a curated online market.
The work is in the selection and the presentation — the difference between something that finds a new owner and something that ends up discarded again is almost entirely how it is seen and where it is placed.
What interests me beyond the practical side is the social circuit underneath it: who throws away, who finds, who buys, and what that movement says about how objects and value circulate through a city.
The project is still in the making.
